painting-a-month update

(For those of you new to my website, back in December the DIY home improvement and design community at Curbly.com offered a contest in which you were to tell them how you'd spend a $200 Amazon gift certificate. I wrote that since my daily drawings and paintings are all in bound journals, I can't hang them on the wall very easily. I proposed to spend the money on painting supplies and canvases and to paint twelve small paintings, one each month, for a year. To my delight, I won.)